Leifheit AG

LEI.DE

Household & Personal Products · Consumer Defensive

Also trades as: 0F2Z.L

Price

€12.90

-0.00 (-0.00%)

Market Cap

€117.8M

Exchange

Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Winston Score

Winston is serious

Below-average fundamentals — multiple weak pillars.

Data as of Aug 10, 2026 · filings through Mar 31, 2026

Share count falling — buybacks

−3.9% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 9.5M (2021) → 9.1M (2025)

Leifheit AG is a German consumer goods company that makes everyday household products. Its core items include mops, brooms, laundry drying racks, ironing boards, kitchen scales, and stepladders. The company sells mainly to households across Europe, through retail stores and online channels, and owns the Leifheit and Soehnle brands.

Leifheit earns money by selling physical products to retailers and directly to consumers. It operates primarily in German-speaking countries and broader Europe, with Germany being its largest market. The company has some brand recognition built over decades, but it competes in a crowded market against both large multinationals and cheap private-label alternatives. With an operating margin of just 1.6% and a very low return on invested capital, the business has little room for error, and its main challenge is improving profitability while managing rising input costs and pricing pressure from lower-cost competitors.

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-4.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

-213.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$4M/ year

↓ Declining (-18% vs prior year)

1.8% of revenue

Below sector average (4%)

R&D spend declining — could signal cost-cutting or efficiency

Insider Activity

23.5%ownership

→ Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~5 months

$21M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

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Leifheit AG has less than a year of cash at its current burn rate. Growth investors should watch for potential share dilution from future fundraising — that directly reduces your ownership.

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Quality

Gross Margin

46.4%

Healthy — 46.4% gross margin

Operating Margin

-4.7%

Losing money on operations — -4.7%

ROCE

-3.1%

Weak — -3.1% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales YoY

-10.5%

Shrinking sales (-10.5% YoY)

EPS YoY

-75.0%

Earnings shrinking (-75.0% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

EPS Consistency

5/8 quarters

Mixed — about half the quarters showed growth

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

520%

Turns 520% of profit into real cash

FCF Margin

0.7%

Thin free cash flow (0.7%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

N/A

Data not available

Interest Cover

1.89x

Dangerous — barely covers interest (1.9x)

Interest coverage between 1 and 3. Profits cover interest, but with little room to spare.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

61.4x

Expensive — P/E 61.4

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

P/E vs Forward

+41.8

GROWING

Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (61.4 → 19.6)

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Dividends

Dividend Yield

9.30%

Healthy income — 9.30% yield

Yield above 6% — often a flag the market is pricing in a cut.

Dividend Growth

+1.8%

Dividend flat

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